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This Month’s Being Game: Being Healthy This month we are “Being Healthy” as part of our monthly Dharma & Sacred Commerce practice. At Dharma, we share the perspective that health doesn’t just mean a healthy body or a healthful diet but encompasses practices of regular nourishment and love of our bodies, minds, and spirits. Whether […]

Fraud Trends for November 2011 Fraud losses cost the financial and retail industries over $250 billion annually, and cybercrimes get more sophisticated every year. Here are some new fraud trends and how to respond to them: Card Skimming Here, thieves install undetected skimmer devices inside the card reader of terminals and capture credit card data. […]

Books We Love: The Method Method This is one of the most enjoyable business books I have ever read. Actually I’m not sure I’d even call it a business book. To me most business books lecture, prescribe esoteric theory and talk at 10,000 feet. It’s like the author never started a business, except for writing […]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Compassionate by Speaking Powerfully A Buddhist practice called Maitri, the practice of compassionate care and loving kindness, is a useful tool with which to practice compassion toward one’s self and each other. To us, speaking powerfully means being deliberate, clear, and compassionate in our communication. This is particularly useful when […]

Merchant Interview with Max Sinclair of Cocopotamus It’s actually a little tortuous writing about Cocopotamus, because we start drooling just thinking about their artisan fudge inventions. Magical flavors like gourmet sea salt & dark chocolate, or cinnamon & chlli, let alone rose water infused chocolate fudge is our idea dessert nirvana. Cocopotamus is the delicious […]

Benefit Corporation Bill Passes in California! On October 9th, California became the newest state to pass benefit corporation legislation, creating a new, fully voluntary class of corporation in California called “benefit corporations”. This new corporate structure allows businesses to pursue a material positive impact on the environment and community in addition to maximizing profits. Previous […]

Co-Founder Alexia Marcous interviewed by GreenMarketing.TV Dharma co-founder Alexia Marcous was interviewed by Lorna Li of GreenMarketing.tv.  Check out this interview to find out why these principles are so central to Alexia’s entrepreneurial approach, including her thoughts on:– The benefits of incorporating the spiritual into your business– Using passive residual income to give back to the […]

You Are Born Worthy Self-esteem is the measure of how you feel about yourself at a given moment in time. Your worth, however, is not a product of your intelligence, your talent, your looks, your good works, or how much you have accomplished. Rather it is an immeasurable and unchanging manifestation of your eternal and […]

Amazon Watch and SBA host Benefit Concert On July 22nd, Dharma was privileged to attend the Benefit Concert with Amazon Watch and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA) at the beautiful Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco. This team-up was the first time that a rainforest protection organization and a bio-fuels organization worked together to raise […]

18 Reasons hosts Tomatoland author Barry Estabrook U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” in regards to openness and transparency in government. Extended amounts of sunlight is also one of the best ways to grow a delicious tomato. Barry Estabrook, author of “Tomatoland,” drove these points home in a dinner/talk hosted by 18 Reasons, the community […]